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by Ms. Alanis Marvin PhD 7 min read

Parental Access to Adolescent Patient Portals

32 hours ago HIPAA requires that patients be able to access copies of their health data! If patient requests it in electronic form, must be provided in electronic form if data is stored that way! A portal is not required – but is a convenient way of getting patients copies of data they are likely to find relevant (vs. waiting for them to ask for it). >> Go To The Portal


Can a patient portal be used for a parent?

HIPAA requires that patients be able to access copies of their health data! If patient requests it in electronic form, must be provided in electronic form if data is stored that way! A portal is not required – but is a convenient way of getting patients copies of data they are likely to find relevant (vs. waiting for them to ask for it).

When to grant patient portal access solely to minors?

In addition to handling your own care, SVHC allows parents and healthcare proxies with authorized consent to access the records of those individuals for whom they manage care. You can request proxy access for the portal by completing the appropriate form below and returning to the Health Information Services department.

How do I get help with the healthcare portal?

If you are under 18, your parent/guardian will need to create an account and apply for you. Access Our Secure Patient Portal The patient portal is available to upload documents, track your financial assistance application status, or complete a screening for financial assistance.

How can health care providers give parents access to minor medical records?

If you need assistance with this Patient Portal, please call 404-501-1107. If you are calling after-hours 5:00 p.m. - 7:30 a.m., a member of our staff will reply to you within the next 24 business hours. Which Patient Portal Should I Use? View Patient Portal Details; Health Management Apps

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What is meaningful use stage 2?

In particular, meaningful use Stage 2 is pushing for healthcare providers to provide more immediate access, particularly the ability to view, download, and transmit information through what is normally expected to be some sort of patient portal.

Can a parent access a minor's medical records?

Healthcare providers can choose to give parents access to the minor's records via a patient portal, but the providers should consider segregating certain information to make those confidential services inaccessible by the parent, Greene says.

Request Patient Portal Access

Emory Healthcare uses different electronic medical records to provide patient care. Because of the way our technology works, this means we also have multiple patient portals – the BLUE, GOLD, and Eye Center portals. Depending on your providers, you may need access to more than one portal.

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To create ant then access the MHS GENESIS Patient Portal, visit https://patient.mhsgenesis.health.mil

What are the chief benefits of MHS GENESIS?

MHS GENESIS is the first Department of Defense-wide electronic health record to be used by all military treatment facilities. By the time that MHS GENESIS is fully implemented throughout all of the DoD, patients will be able to receive care from any military treatment facility knowing that their health records will follow them.

How is MHS GENESIS different from CAL MED's current electronic health record systems?

Like all Army military treatment facilities, CAL MED currently uses several electronic health record systems for inpatient records, outpatient records, emergency room records, and other areas of care. While care teams can view patients' records in the different systems, this requires extra time to navigate all of the records.

What will I notice about what's new with MHS GENESIS?

The primary difference that patients will notice is the Patient Portal. While receiving care at MTFs which use MHS GENESIS, patients will no longer use RelayHealth and Tricare Online except for limited functions, such as requesting new providers.

When will I be able to start using the MHS GENESIS Patient Portal?

While patients may be able to log on to the Patient Portal and explore it during the weeks leading up to the transition to MHS GENESIS, the Patient Portal will not be active until September 7, 2019.

When patients move, will their new military treatment facilities be using MHS GENESIS?

The Department of Defense has a multi-year plan for all military treatment facilities to transition to MHS GENESIS. CAL MED is in the second wave of military treatment facility to transition to MHS GENESIS.

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The Role of Patient Portals

  • How a practice handles parent portal access to adolescent patient medical information depends on whether the practice’s patient portal has the capacity to filter out data that becomes confidential when the child reaches 13 (or whatever age the state law designates). Practices wi…
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Privacy Challenges with Patient Portals

Authentication For Portal Use

Why only Passwords?

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MARIANNE MCGEE:What are patient portals? What sorts of organizations are launching them, and why are they important from a regulatory standpoint? ADAM GREENE:Patient portals usually refer to some way for a patient to be able to view some portion of the electronic health records ... of a healthcare provider. ... You c…
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Minors' EHRs

  • MCGEE: What do you think are the biggest privacyand security challenges related to patient portals? GREENE: I think one of them is authentication. How do you know that the patient is who the patient really says he or she is? There are a number of different strategies for trying to tackle that. Another privacy and security challenge here is that you have an Internet-facing website, ess…
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Adult Caregivers

  • MCGEE:What are the various ways that individuals can be credentialed and authenticated for accessing patient portals? GREENE:There are two stages here; the initial identity-proofing and the subsequent authentication every time someone logs into the patient portal. The identity-proofing normally happens either in-person or online. The in-person part could happen as part of the regis…
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Other Methods of Access

  • MCGEE:Why do you think most organizations that have a patient portals will go with the username and password only? GREENE:Difficulty and lack of demand. I think there is going to be a minority of patients who may want the more robust features of multi-factor authentication, and may want to feel confident that their information is not going to be accessible to others based on just the …
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Biggest Emerging Threats

  • MCGEE:What are the privacy and security challenges involved with providing access to health records of minors via the patient portals? GREENE:This is a very tough situation. You're going to have, under the law, some minors who have their parent or guardian as their personal representative under HIPAA who has the right to access their information. But, minors may be a…
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